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View SchemaFusion reactions in plasmas as probe of the high-momentum tail of particle distributions
| Authors | Massimo Coraddu, Marcello Lissia, Giuseppe Mezzorani, Piero Quarati |
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| ArXiv ID | nucl-th/0512066 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/0512066 |
| DOI | 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00143-8 |
| Journal | Eur. Phys. J. B 50 (2006) 11-15 |
Abstract
In fusion reactions, the Coulomb barrier selects particles from the high-momentum part of the distribution. Therefore, small variations of the high-momentum tail of the velocity distribution can produce strong effects on fusion rates. In plasmas several potential mechanisms exist that can produce deviations from the standard Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution. Quantum broadening of the energy-momentum dispersion relation of the plasma quasi-particles modifies the high-momentum tail and could explain the fusion-rate enhancement observed in low-energy nuclear reaction experiments.
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"title": "Fusion reactions in plasmas as probe of the high-momentum tail of particle distributions",
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